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May 14	comment	Why are there exactly four nucleobases in DNA? Cool explanation.
Apr 25	comment	Do cockroaches have less health issues than humans? I have heard that cockroaches are usually infested with parasites.
Apr 21	comment	Two brown-haired people have two children, P and Q. P has blond hair. Q has brown hair. What is the probability that Q is heterozygous? now ask that PhD to solve the Monte hall problem.
Apr 1	comment	Is it technically possible to make someone see something when their eyes are closed? One side note: even with eyes "closed", light penetrates your eye lids, and you can see things. Of course they are very very blurry.
Feb 22	comment	How does a veggie-less diet affect the human body? FYI: this guy doesn't eat any vegetable: robrhinehart.com/?p=298
Feb 22	comment	Can we disambiguate competing molecular mechanisms of learning and plasticity by measuring electrical activity of neurons? Yes, that could be a strategy. I like your idea. But, you'll need to record from pairs of connected cells intracellularly which is not impossible, but limits long stable recordings. I guess imaging techniques may be able to get over this limit.
Feb 14	comment	Can we disambiguate competing molecular mechanisms of learning and plasticity by measuring electrical activity of neurons? this is a pretty broad question. I can answer parts of it, but it would be insufficient overall. If you can break the question down to smaller chunks, you may get better responses.
Feb 3	comment	Systems identification in small neural network Hi Konrad. I'm also very interested in the same question. I do not know of any such data available though.
Jan 9	comment	Why are mosquitoes repelled by smoke? Remember mosquitoes have very sensitive CO2 sensors. They track their prey using CO2, and smoke has lots of CO2 which makes mosquitoes blind, I presume.
Jan 3	comment	Possible to Gain More Weight than the Food You Eat I don't know if you consider water as food, but you can easily gain weight by just drinking water. You might want to look into what can be absorbed through your skin as well.
Dec 28	comment	In scuba diving, are nitrogen narcosis and high pressure nervous syndrome the same thing? what does the linked paper (by Hunger Jr and Bennet 1974) say?
Nov 20	comment	Why is Botulinum toxin the most potent poison known? @MadScientist I didn't know if OP wanted to know "why it is known for the most potent poision" or mechanism of Botox. I asked OP via comment, but with no answer so far.
Nov 20	comment	Why is Botulinum toxin the most potent poison known? do you want to know the mechanism? Or numbers for comparison?
Nov 18	comment	Why does vision go blurry after microscope use, and how to prevent it? Could it be because you are focusing at a fixed distance for a long time? I would try changing my focus every 5 mins by looking someplace far away.
Nov 12	comment	Athletes: nature vs. nurture? It is difficult but not impossible to quantify. Could you give us some solid scientific references?
Nov 8	comment	How is propagation of action potentials terminated once the “message” has been sent/received? related question: biology.stackexchange.com/questions/3831/…
Oct 12	comment	How to seek information on the duration of biological entrainment processes in mammals? This is still somewhat ambiguous. I think you need to restrict your question to a specific process you are interested in. Learning and switching to a new state can happen on a much shorter time scale (milliseconds to minutes) in the brain.
Sep 29	comment	How are different types of cells created from zygote? The word you want to search for is "differentiation". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_differentiation
Sep 27	comment	Why do neurones have only one axon? are you considering multiple axons that transmits a single (synchronized) action potential? Or multiple action potentials generated at separate axon hillock?
Sep 22	comment	Can a person die instantaneously from internal damage to the brain? What do you mean by instantaneously? What do you mean by die? If one looses consciousness irreversibly in 10 ms, would you consider to be instantaneous?